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...Springfield Republican thus speaks editorially of Mr. Irving's lecture in Sanders Theatre: "Culture and liberality have made rapid progress in the last twenty years, in the last ten even, when Henry Irving, the representative English actor of the day, delivers at Harvard College an address on the art of acting; an address which presupposed from its tone and the treatment of its subject that there would be in the audience students wishing to adopt the stage as a profession, as others will adopt law or journalism or the ministry. This assumption, once at least, explicitly stated, is the most...
...Irving began by saying, "I am deeply sensible of the compliment paid me, not so much for myself as for the profession which I represent. In inviting me here to address you, you intend to recognize the influence of the drama as a factor in education. I trust that you have no prejudice against the stage, else I should not be here to-night. There are persons not a hundred miles from here who have never been to a theatre, but have no objections to see a play in a museum, especially if the vestibule be ornamented by statues, stuffed...
President Eliot has declined to deliver an address to the public, under the auspices of the Union...
...very fitting that a society of college students, working for ability to express themselves before an audience, should invite their college president, who has won an extended reputation as a public speaker, to address them. But, if such an invitation was appropriate, it was still more appropriate, we think, for President Eliot, interested as he is in the growth of college institutions that are practical, to comply with this invitation, and thus encourage a society that is doing more toward fitting the students of Harvard to take positions of influence after graduation, than many of the courses in the elective...
...reason, we understand, for this refusal, is that the official duties of the President have so increased during his absence, that he will have no time to prepare an address. We acknowledge that there must be many calls for the President's time and attention, but the same excuse given by a student when he has had several weeks' notice that a forensic will be due March 31st, has been declared null and void...